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apex, before which it is sliarpl y angled and retracted as a curved dark brown mark 

 to costa, forming the edge of a semicircular pale ochreous costal blotch, which is 

 limited b}' a brown spot close before apex : fringe yellow above, becoming rufous 

 towards anal angle ; cell-spot black, minute. 



Hindwinqi : with the liue antemedian, the area beyond it strongly suffused 

 with rufous fulvous, deepening towards the margin ; ,the tail with two unequal 

 black spots separated by the pale vein 4 ; fringe rnfous throughout. 



Underside wholly yellow, speckled slightly with rnfons ; fringe rufous, and 

 a short curved rufous streak on costa of forewing before apex. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen yellow ; face above brown. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



One (? two days from Fort Beni, Congo Free State, May 6th, 1899 (Dr. Ansorge). 

 Veins 7, 8, 9, of forewings stalked from before eud of cell ; 10 and 11 coincident 

 and anastomosing with 12. Hindmargin of forewings oblique and straight ; of 

 hindwings toothed at middle. 



Dasymacaria gen. nov. 



Forewings : narrow ; costa straight from base, strongly arched before apex ; 

 hindmargin irregularly excised in upper half, elbowed at vein 3, then oblique to 

 anal angle. 



HiiKlwings : with irregular hindmargin ; the apex truncate ; margin crenulate, 

 more deeply excised^ between veins 4 and 6. 



Antennae of S plumose to four-fifths ; iialj)i porrect, thick, globose, the 

 terminal joint invisible ; frenulum strong ; tongue not visible (? absent) ; thorax, 

 pectus, and legs hairy ; no fovea in forewing of (J. 



Neio-ation : forewing, cell longer than half of wing ; discocellular with upper 

 half obliquely curved inwards and concave outwards ; the lower half strongly 

 inangulated, its lower arm oblique and straight outwards ; first median nervule 

 at five-eighths, second shortly before third ; lower radial from above the middle of 

 discocellular, upper from upper angle of cell ; veins 7, 8, 9 long-stalked from 

 angle ; 10 and 11 stalked ; hindwings with cell nearly two-thirds of wing ; vein 7 

 from before upper angle ; medians as in forewings. 



Type : Dasymacaria ansorgei sp. nov. 



29. Dasymacaria ansorgei sp. nov. 



Forewings: dingy ochreous, dappled with coarse olive ochreous or brownish 

 speckles ; first line double, black-brown, from one-fourth of costa to one-fifth of 

 inner margin, bent on subcostal, median, and submedian veins ; outer line from 

 nearly three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, fine, dark brown, angled 

 uutwards at vein 5, then oblique inwards and dentate on all the veins, preceded in 

 upper half of wing by a brownish olive line, and followed and preceded on inner 

 margin by a similar coloured erect shade ; a triangular olive-brown blotch on costa 

 beyond the line ; submarginal line marked only by a few brown clouds ; discocellular 

 with an augulateJ olive-brown mark touching a brown costal spot ; marginal line 

 olive-brown ; fringe coucolorous with wing. 



Hindwings: with dentate antemedian and postmedian brownish lines, the 

 latter finely edged with dark brown ; cell-spot large, triaugnlar, lihickish. 



